What IE graduates optimize?

• use of personnel, materials, and machines

• layouts of machinery and equipment

• workflows

• quality of products and services 

• costs

Also: working as a part of group of professionals who design, implement, and revise issues like

• methods of operation

• material handling

• equipment layout

• Design of Manufacturing Process

• Design of Assembly Line

• Facilities planning

• Production control

• Quality assurance

• Transportation

• Consulting

• Government agencies

• Cost estimating

• Other industries:

  • Medical care

  • Software development

  • Banking

  • Project management

• Competitions

• Summer programs

• Clubs

• Internships

• Online courses, puzzles, and games

• Engineering fairs

• Design projects

• Hackathons 

• Problem-solving skills: understand how to apply basic engineering principles to identify and solve complex technical problems.

• Interpersonal skills: confer with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards.

• Communication skills: be able to understand and follow instructions, as well as communicate problems to supervisors.

• Design skills: prepare charts, graphs, and diagrams to illustrate workflow, routing, floor layouts, how materials are handled, and how machines are used.

• Critical thinking skills: consider how workers perform operations such as maintenance, production, and service.

• Observational skills: observe workers to make sure that equipment is being used and maintained according to quality assurance standards.

• Analytical skills: evaluate data to recommend or justify changes to production standards for improving quality and efficiency.

• Math skills: use the principles of mathematics for analysis, design, and troubleshooting.

• Detail-oriented: gather and record measurements and observations needed by industrial engineers.

• Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers: one of the world’s largest professional societies that provide leadership in developing industrial engineering. IISE enhances your capabilities in application, education, training, or research as an Industrial Engineer.

• IAENG Society of Industrial Engineering: a forum for networking, information exchange, idea sharing for the IE community.

• The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering: a professional association to share ideas about technology, management, applied engineering, research, and engineering applications.

• American Society of Certified Engineering Technicians: society created especially for, and administered by, engineering technicians in all engineering disciplines.

• American Society for Engineering Education: a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.

• The OR Society aims to advance knowledge, interest and education in OR. Their goal is to see operational research used and acknowledged widely in all areas of industry, business, government, the community and the third sector.

• ORBEL is the Belgian Society for the promotion of scientific methods of management.

• WSU databases: http://library.wichita.edu/aveng/industrial1.html

• UH resources: https://guides.lib.uh.edu/industrial

• VTech:https://guides.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/ise

• IISE: https://www.iise.org/Home/

• Free ebooks: https://www.gutenberg.org/

• Wiley: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/General+%26+Introductory+Industrial+Engineering-c-IE00

• https://www.theorsociety.com/

• https://towardsdatascience.com/what-is-operations-research-1541fb6f4963

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/operations-research

• http://www.scienceofbetter.org/what/

• https://mathworld.wolfram.com/OperationsResearch.html

• https://orfe.princeton.edu/research/operations-research

• www.Desmos.com/calculator  graph anything

• www.Geogebra.org  - graph anything in 2D and 3D (downloadable

• http://www.phpsimplex.com/en/operations_research.htm)

• https://sketch.io/sketchpad/ draw anything

• https://sketchbook.com/ draw anything

• www.AMPL.com solve anything

• https://www.wolframalpha.com/ solve anything

• https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ Math. Just math. For Nerds2.

• http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/storage/dde/downloads/mbaii_qt.pdf OR notes for managers 

• r/industrialengineering/ 

• r/OperationsResearch/

• r/sysor/

• r/math/

• https://alison.com/ 

• https://www.codecademy.com/ 

• https://www.coursera.org/  

• https://www.edx.org/ 

• https://www.khanacademy.org/ 

• https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm 

• https://online.stanford.edu/courses 

• https://www.udacity.com/ 

• https://www.udemy.com/ 

• https://fullstackopen.com/en/about/ free full stack course by uni of helsinki

Absolutely Random (but related to developing some IE skills)

• www.Factorio.com 

• Oxygen Not Included